- Course Director, Leadership Essential
What I like best about IEDLI is seeing the difference that it makes for our participants. It is great to hear from former participants that the lessons they took from IEDLI made their EDs—and their work life—better!
Dr. Stephanie Kayden
Stephanie Kayden, MD, MPH, is the former Brigham Distinguished Chair in Emergency Medicine and Deputy Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is a former Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Dr. Kayden is a founder of the International Emergency Department Leadership Institute and a former Deputy Editor of the Journal of Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. She is editor-in-chief of the textbook Emergency Department Leadership and Management: Best Principles and Practice. She has worked to improve emergency medical systems, humanitarian aid and disaster response in more than 40 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America.
Dr. Kayden received her undergraduate degree in Philosophy from Harvard University and her medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. She completed residency training in Emergency Medicine at Yale, then a fellowship in International Emergency Medicine at Harvard. She has a Master of Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Kayden trained in humanitarian response with the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva.
As a founding faculty member of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and the Humanitarian Academy at Harvard, she has trained professionals from around the world in international disaster response and humanitarian aid.
Dr. Kayden helped develop emergency medical care in Bhutan, Fiji, Nepal, Germany, Serbia, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Pakistan, and Israel and the Palestinian Territories. She provided disaster relief to survivors of the 2005 Kashmir earthquake in Pakistan, rebuilt refugee health systems in Tanzania, and published research on the effects of conflict on health in Liberia and Cameroon. In 2010, Dr. Kayden helped establish the largest field hospital for survivors of the Haiti earthquake. She helped coordinate the response to the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 and worked with the Japan Medical Association to improve the country’s disaster response capability. Dr. Kayden was the senior emergency physician working in the Emergency Department of Brigham and Women’s Hospital at the time of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. She regularly lectures around the world on the topics of humanitarian response and emergency medicine leadership.